Yesterday’s win on Sunday Night Baseball notwithstanding, it’s been a tough road for the Mets since the big selloff at and near the trade deadline. It’s made following the minor league system more interesting than following the MLB club. We should always keep an eye on how the farm system is doing. But with the [...]
Numbered prospect lists aren’t really my thing anymore, as the past two years my preseason top 50 has been in tiers. But with all of the activity that has gone on with the club trading MLB players for prospects, and my belief about those prospects, it seemed like a good time to journey to the [...]
The Mets' 2023 season is something that many fans wish they could put in their rear-view mirrors. It was a painful season and the most expensive team in baseball history collapsed to a degree that could never have been anticipated. While everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong, the Mets used their owner’s [...]
With the Mets adding prospects with three trades so far this season, it seemed like a good time to talk minor leaguers with David Groveman. This piece initially started out discussing the trade with the Marlins, only to be eclipsed by the one with the Rangers. If we were smart, we’d hold off on this [...]
As much as I tend not to graduate players off of my Top Prospect list until the offseason, it is disingenuous to still list Francisco Alvarez and Brett Baty as prospects. They are young and blossoming major league players and Alvarez seems likely to become one of the top offensive catchers in the league. With [...]
When I wrote up my draft preview I listed only pitchers around all of the Mets top picks in the 2023 draft. The Mets farm system is no longer the breeding ground for Aces it was in years past and it seemed time for the Mets to focus their attention on rebuilding this aspect of [...]
The Mets do not have a pick in the Top 30 but do have seven picks that should have Top 150 draft prospects available. This article will ignore the philosophy of pick the best player available. Instead, this piece is purely me listing three pitchers at each pick. The first (By the Scouts) pick will [...]
Is the Mets minor league system broken? That’s hard to quantify. By the only metric that matters, which is players reaching the majors and having impacts, it is not. Brett Baty and Francisco Alvarez have both graduated the minors this year and are entrenched into the lineup for the major league team. Is the Mets [...]
With the major league club floundering, what better time to have a discussion on the Mets’ minor league system? Here’s an email back-and-forth between me and our guy on the minors, David Groveman. Brian: Ronny Mauricio hits 26 HR in AA at age 21, follows that up as the MVP of the Dominican Winter League, [...]
We have reached the beginning of the Short Season minors and the minor leagues are finally in full swing. Now that we’re here I am going to check in on each of the Top 10 Prospects as ranked before the season began. For those that don’t remember: 1. Francisco Alvarez, C 2. Brett Baty, 3B [...]
Every year I do various breakdowns of the Mets Top 20 or Top 50 prospects and the rankings are grueling. This year I decided to do something different and I’m breaking out a list of rankings by position so we can evaluate the depth in a different way. I’ll be breaking down the top players [...]
One of two selections in the first round of the 2022 MLB Draft, Kevin Parada was considered one of the best hitting prospects in last year’s class. When he fell to the Mets at the No. 11 overall pick, the team got a bargain in selecting him – Baseball America rated his as the sixth-best [...]